and rural USA and in Africa.

His work is about using
the arts as a tool for transformation.

He is available to perform, teach, direct, write and to serve as an arts consultant specializing in strengthening non-profit organizations.

For information on David
Schein's solo works - SCHEIN ON, MYethiOPIA, OUT COMES BUTCH, INFARCATION go to UpComing Shows

For reviews of a recent
performance in Vermont go to
Out Comes Butch - 7 Days

WRITING directing ACTING composing NON-PROFIT
MANAGEMENT producing TEACHING THEATER and creative
writing FUND-RAISING arts for youth BUDGETING Grant-writing
& grants managment SOLO PERFORMANCE board development
THEATER MANAGEMENT jobs programs in the arts ORAL
HISTORY arts in urban development IMPROVISATION strategic
planning BRANDING arts in health-care ARTS FOR SOCIAL
CHANGE performance poetry ARTS IN EDUCATION musicals
ARTS FOR INNER-CITY KIDS arts for african kids ARTS FOR
RURAL KIDS donor cultivation FACILITY MANAGEMENT arts
for seniors ARTS IN JAIL environmental arts PLANNED GIVING
donor cultivation PROGRAM ASSESSMENT arts integration
  
     

Working on Arts and Development Projects

Creating and Sustaining Arts Based Non-profits and NGOs

Grant-writing and Fund-raising

spent 30 years in the art creating innovative programs and projects throughout the world. His expertise ranges from as a writer, performer, director, educator and administrator. He has worked extensively in professional and community arts. In the early ‘70’s he was a founding member of both the Iowa Theater Lab & Berkeley’s Blake Street Hawkeyes. In his fifteen years in the SF Bay Area he created works with Whoopi Goldberg, John O'Keefe, George Coates, Guillermo Gomez-Pena & others. With Jim Nisbet he produced 5 Actualist Conventions in the Bay Area, large art festivals involving over forty performances per day. He was the author, and producer of the award winning “TOKENS: A Play on the Plague” an opera with a cast of 60 that was performed at Theater Artaud in San Francisco. He has performed his solo plays throughout North America and Europe and his “Out Comes Butch,” has been produced by many venues, including the Guthrie Theater of Minneapolis. He was the original director & contributing writer to "Whoopi Goldberg on Broadway.” He has served as adjunct faculty at Second City, Chicago and the Naropa Institute. In 1991 he became the Artistic Director of Free Street Theater in Chicago and, in 1996, Free Street’s Executive Director. At Free Street he designed and administered programs that linked theater and creative writing to the advancement of literacy of low-income Chicago youth and teens. In 2001 Schein developed the Awassa AIDS EDUCATION CIRCUS with street children in Awassa, Ethiopia, and has made six tours to Africa, directing the CIRCUS in market place performances throughout the Rift Valley and co-founding two NGOs in Ethiopia that have grown up around the CIRCUS. In August 2003 Schein became the Executive Director of the Arts Council of Chautauqua County in Jamestown New York and the Reg Lenna Civic Center, a 1250 seat restored movie theater in Jamestown. In Jamestown he has administered the extensive educational programs of the Arts Council, created a Public Arts Program and Arts Services Program, conducted a capital campaign to create an “Arts Block”, developed a studio program, and produced countless shows and events at the Reg Lenna Theatre.